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Words to the Wise: A Medical-Philosophical Dictionary

This dictionary offers definitions and explanations of medical and philosophical concepts, providing a resource for understanding complex ideas in both fields. more

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Thomas Szasz
Thomas Szasz

Thomas Szasz, born on April 15, 1920 in Hungary, was a renowned American psychiatrist, writer, and philosopher. He is known for his critical views on psychiatry and liberalism, particularly his skepticism about the nature of mental illness and his emphasis on individual freedom. more

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“Poetical beauty.—As we speak of poetical beauty, so ought we to speak of mathematical beauty and medical beauty. But we do not do so; and the reason is that we know well what is the object of mathematics, and that it consists in proofs, and what is the object of medicine, and that it consists in healing. But we do not know in what grace consists, which is the object of poetry. We do not know the natural model which we ought to imitate; and through lack of this knowledge, we have coined fantastic terms, "The golden age," "The wonder of our times," "Fatal," etc., and call this jargon poetical beauty. But whoever imagines a woman after this model, which consists in saying little things in big words, will see a pretty girl adorned with mirrors and chains, at whom he will smile; because we know better wherein consists the charm of woman than the charm of verse. But those who are ignorant would admire her in this dress, and there are many villages in which she would be taken for the queen; hence we call sonnets made after this model "Village Queens.”

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Book:Pensées
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“There are no beautiful thoughts (he [Flaubert] would say) without beautiful forms, and conversely. As it is impossible to extract from a physical body the qualities which really constitute it—colour, extension, and the like—without reducing it to a hollow abstraction, in a word, without destroying it; just so it is impossible to detach the form from the idea, for the idea only exists by virtue of the form.”

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Book:Appreciations, With an Essay on Style
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“شعر زبان خدایان است. من هم شعر را دوست دارم. ولی شعر تنها منظومه نیست؛ شعر در همه جا هست، دور و بر ما همه شعر است. به این درخت ها و این آسمان نگاه کنید. زندگی و زیبایی از هر طرف به چشم می خورد. هر جا زندگی و زیبایی وجود دارد شعر هم آن جا هست.”

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Book:Rudin
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